The Nuclear Physics Department of IRFU at CEA Paris-Saclay

Abstract

The Institute for Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (IRFU) at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) was created in 1992 by bringing together the scientific and technological components of entities dedicated to particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. The embodiment of a visionary scheme at a time when the links between the infinitely small and the infinitely large were less common and less obvious than they are today, IRFU federates seven physical and technical departments through shared methods, instrumental technologies, and scientific questioning: